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Adrià Mitjavila Ventura
Bioinformatician at Istituto Europeo di Oncologia
Biotechnologist living around computers. Interested in data analysis to support experimental research as well as in pure computational experiments and in software/pipeline development.
References available upon request.
Experience
Bioinformatician
Istituto Europeo di Oncologia
Milan, Italy
07/2019 - Present
Pasini’s lab
Analysis of omics data analysis (RNA-seq, ChIP-seq, ATAC-seq) | Comparison of different ATAC-seq peak callers. | Development of an ATAC-seq pipeline for Snakemake.
Research Assistant
Instituto de Biomedicina de Sevilla
Seville, Spain
07/2018 - 10/2018
Gene expression lab
Analysis of MNase-seq data from Ccr4-mutant yeast.
Master’s thesis student
Instituto de Biomedicina de Sevilla
Seville, Spain
09/2017 - 07/2018
Gene expression lab.
Analysis of MNase-seq data from Xrn1-mutant yeast | MNase-qPCR experiments, including MNase DNA digestion, primer desing, qPCRs and analysis.
- Supervisors: Dr. Sebastián Chávez de Diego and Dr. Gabriel Gutierrez Pozo.
- MSc degree in Molecular Genetics and Biotechnology.
Research internship student
Institut d’Investigació Biomèdica de Girona
Girona, Spain
07/2017 - 09/2017
Unit of Diabetes, Endocrinology and Nutrition
Identification of new factors (genetic and bacterial) related to adipose tissue physiology and obesity.
Bachelor’s thesis student
Microbial. Sistemes i aplicacions analítiques, S.L.
Girona, Spain
01/2017 - 06/2017
DNA extraction of intestinal mucosa biopsies | qPCR experiments to detect clusters and families of bacteria | NGS data analysis to quantify bacterial genders in intestinal biopsies.
- Supervisor: Prof. Jesús García-Gil.
- BSc degree in Biotecnology.
Internship student
Microbial. Sistemes i aplicacions analítiques, S.L.
Girona, Spain
09/2016 - 06/2017
Microbiological and molecular analyses of food and water samples to search for pathogens and perform food forensics.
Education
MSc in Bioinformatics and Biostatistics
Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
Online
2018 - Present
MSc in Molecular Genetics and Biotechnology
Universidad de Sevilla
Seville, Spain
2017 - 2018
- Specialization on Molecular Biology R&D
- Master’s thesis: Influence of Xrn1 in nucleosome positioning across Saccharomyces cerevisiae genome and its effects in transcription.
BSc in Biotechnology
Universitat de Girona
Girona, Spain
2012 - 2017
- Specialization in Cellular & Molecular Biotechnology.
- Bachelor’s thesis: Butyrate-induced changes in the diversity of intestinal mucosa-associated microbiota in colorectal cancer patients submitted to a lateral ileostomy.
Publications
Xrn1 influence on gene transcription results from the combination of general effects on elongating RNA pol II and gene-specific chromatin configuration
Begley V et al. RNA Biology. DOI: 10.1080/15476286.2020.1845504.
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2020